I just came across a great little utility built by one of our brilliant programmers that I wanted to share with you. I thought this item was especially neat and worthy of blogging about. This little widget allows you to display thumbnails of your most recent DropShots photos anywhere on the internet with just a single line of code. These thumbnails are clickable back to the larger view on your DropShots page. As you add new images to your DropShots site, the thumbnails in your widget will automatically update. Don’t worry, in keeping with DropShots’ montra of making things simple, yet powerful – you can pick up this single line of code and simply past it into your site in less that a minute.

Here’s where to find the code: just click on a thumbnail from the user homepage to get to the day view. Now click on the "Widget" icon below the main image and a dialog window will pop up – see example below. Now just make your selections of vertical/horizontal and number of images – then copy the code where you like. Now whenever you update your DropShots images, your widget images will be updated as well, keeping your site updated – without even trying.

Please keep in mind that you will need to be logged into the account from where the images are to be fetched – or just change the user="user id goes here" in the code. So if it looks like images are being pulled from the wrong account, that’s because that was the account you were "logged into" at the time you grabbed the code snippet.